Ceremonies For Candlemas Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HBHB FFFFBB| Down with the rosemary and bays | A |
| Down with the misletoe | B |
| Instead of holly now up raise | A |
| The greener box for show | C |
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| The holly hitherto did sway | D |
| Let box now domineer | E |
| Until the dancing Easter day | D |
| Or Easter's eve appear | E |
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| Then youthful box which now hath grace | F |
| Your houses to renew | G |
| Grown old surrender must his place | F |
| Unto the crisped yew | G |
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| When yew is out then birch comes in | H |
| And many flowers beside | B |
| Both of a fresh and fragrant kin | H |
| To honour Whitsuntide | B |
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| Green rushes then and sweetest bents | F |
| With cooler oaken boughs | F |
| Come in for comely ornaments | F |
| To re adorn the house | F |
| Thus times do shift each thing his turn does hold | B |
| New things succeed as former things grow old | B |
Robert Herrick
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